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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostBoomed.
Anyway, can't say I have too much sympathy with them as they consistently seem to deliver me more than my fair share of bills!!!!
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Chief executive Adam Crozier has been awarded a total of £2.4m in performance bonuses since arriving at the company in 2003. The figure boosted his £3.6m salary over the period by two-thirds – but it does not include a series of further perks that have added millions to his pay package during his time at the troubled company...Royal Mail Group has paid its executive board members – who typically number between four and six at a time – a total of more than £22m in salaries alone. But the executives received £10.7m in performance-related bonuses...The bonus bill has risen from £616,000, shared between seven executives and the former non-executive chairman Allan Leighton in 2002/3, to £1.03m split by just four individuals last year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-1801011.html
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I had Home Delivery Network deliver the new Terry Pratchett from Amazon this week.
Was it an issue?
Not to me, Amazon or Home Delivery Network.
It is for Royal Mail because they are losing business.
It is for their striking employees because if Royal Mail lose business then even more of them will lose their jobs.
I think maybe Darwin might have had something to say about Royal Mail employees.
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostWhat would all the simpletons with regional accents do if they stopped running trade unions though?
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Originally posted by singhr View PostOurs only delivers junk mail addressed to The Occupier even though I filled in that 'no junk mail' request thingy over a year ago.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostIf any of us kicked up a fuss when our employers/clients wanted to modernise and demanded that they take on some of our ideas we would be thrown out on the street within 30 seconds.
They are living in a fantasy world.
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostAmazon are already looking a contingency plans and if they manage to still deliver without Royal Mail then quite possibly they (and others) will make a permanent shift to a more reliable service.
Amazon.co.uk has cancelled its long-term contract to use the Royal Mail for parcels over 500 grams and will use a rival service, Home Delivery Network
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I'd settle for 2 or 3 reliable deliveries a week.
Right now I get no mail. My redirections from the flat I just sold have mostly gone missing. Let them have a national strike I say: at least it will resolve the problem in SW London quicker.
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostAmazon are already looking a contingency plans and if they manage to still deliver without Royal Mail then quite possibly they (and others) will make a permanent shift to a more reliable service.
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First decide what you want of Royal Mail:
1. A national public service that carries a letter from any part of the Kingdom to any other for the same nominal fee.
2. A commercial delivery service like any other.
3. A hybrid: let it compete in the market, but step in to ensure that it (or somebody) will guarantee delivery everywhere for a nominal fee.
Your choice will pretty much decide what direction you advocate it taking. What you can't have is setup no. 2 with the results of no. 1.
BTW a not dissimilar analysis applies to the BBC too.
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If any of us kicked up a fuss when our employers/clients wanted to modernise and demanded that they take on some of our ideas we would be thrown out on the street within 30 seconds.
They are living in a fantasy world.
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I was amazed when my post arrived at 8:00 this morning...
....then I realised it was a kind neighbour from a few streets away where my post had been wrongly delivered.
Regular occurence round these parts. They always get the house number right, just not the street.
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